Apparatus and method of providing user interface

摘要

A method of providing a UI and a display apparatus applying the same include the operations of selecting a main thumbnail, searching thumbnails related to the main thumbnail on a basis of the main thumbnail, and displaying the selected main thumbnail and the searched thumbnails on radial axes according to a preset arrangement criterion.

主权项

1. A method of providing a user interface (UI), comprising:
selecting a main thumbnail; searching thumbnails related to the main thumbnail; displaying the searched thumbnails on radial axes according to a preset arrangement criterion, and displaying the main thumbnail at a center of the radial axes; receiving an axis separation command for a selected axis among the radial axes; and displaying, upon receiving the separation command, the searched thumbnails of the selected axis on a separate screen area from the radial axes and removing the searched thumbnails of the selected axis from the searched thumbnails on the radial axes so that the main thumbnail is displayed in the separate screen area and in the center of the radial axes.